By Our Correspondent
GUWAHATI/BHUBANESWAR: BJP National VP and In charge of Assam and Delhi, Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda on Sunday has arrived in Guwahati along with Party’s Saha Prabhari Pawan Sharma to review BJP’s preparations for the coming Assembly polls.
BJP National VP Jay Panda has been frequently visiting poll bound Assam to review party’s preparations and selection of right candidates for the battle. Panda, according to BJP sources, has been regularly briefing National President JP Nadda, General Secretary(Organisation) BL Santosh and Union Home Minister Amit Shah as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is closely monitoring political activities in West Bengal and Assam, where BJP hoped to form the next Governments.
Assam BJP few weeks had held its State Executive, where Panda also attended along with Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal. Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, and Kerala and the lone union territory, Puducherry are going polls this year while BJP’s focus more on Bengal and Assam.
Currenly governed by the Sarbananda Sonowal-led BJP regime, Assam is slated for polls in April 2021.The prospect of elections in Assam this year has generated a considerable amount of enthusiasm, especially in the previous elections in 2016, the polls brought a change of power.
The Indian National Congress (INC), which had formed the government under Tarun Gogoi since 2001, lost its majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Sarbananda Sonowal. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA), led by the BJP, is looking to secure its foothold in the state, being supported by Atul Bora’s Asom Gana Parishad and other regional parties like the United People’s Party Liberal and the Gana Suraksha Party.
Meanwhile, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), led by Congress and consisting of the Left parties, will be looking to get the reigns of governance back, with it roping in Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), which commands a significant support base among Muslims of Bengali descent. With the increasingly vicious row over “illegal foreigners” in Assam and the contention over the 1985 Assam Accord and National Register of Citizens (NRC), the polls are eagerly awaited for by election-enthusiasts across India.
